Yup..Dad is gonna be mad...the threshhold is somewhere in all this I'm sure...especially if you look back at Genesis 6...genetics and manipulating DNA/Embryos, etc., was the reason for the Flood...no doubt this is going to be reason for the Fire...
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Genetic manipulations were the reason that the Flood happened? This statement is wrong on so many levels...
Does every time a river comes out of its bed mean that someone tried to do some stem cell research in their basement?
"And yay, some goat-herder tried to manipulate the genetic structure of his flock, so God frowned upon him and for his misdeeds God sent a shit-load of water crashing down to cover the Earth and wipe his misdeeds clean."
I don't fucking think so.
About three millennia ago, at the time when the Old Testament was being written, the highest technology in the area was the making of bronze, glass, and faience. Medical science (to use the term laughably) was relatively well developed among the Egyptians, but even there, they were competent at dealing with just obvious structural stuff like wounds and broken bones; diseases were "treated" with prayers, spells, and nostrums that were even more useless than the prayers and spells because they made the patient worse at least as often as better.
There's a colossal leap between that sort of "medical science" and genetic manipulation. It has taken us at least 30 centuries, and we're still just getting started. I don't know what sort of "genetic manipulation" you think people could have been doing back when the most advanced prescriptions included crocodile dung -- apart from basic breeding of livestock, which has been done continually for about 12,000 years.
Oh, and that flood? It was only local, not global, and there was no ark -- that whole fable is pure fiction, and plagiarized fiction at that (stolen from the mythology of the Babylonians). Kindly grow up and join us in the 21st century.
~David D.G.
Mattural Selection and Martin, I have proof it's the New Zealanders that do it: http://www.adultsheepfinder.com/
The evidence for this is better than the evidence for intelligent design, so I think that these Kiwi+Sheep relations should be taught in schools.
We had gene-splicing and in vitro fertilization technology before Noah?
Guy4God must believe in Atlantis, then.
Back when I was a christian, I was told that by the second coming, we would be as advanced as god was at the creation, so stem cell research seemed sensible to me even before i became agnostic... shut this bat-shit up, Guy4God, and learn to have a proper username, like mine... fuckin disgraceful
Can you picture it? In a time when agriculture and irrigation were still new, and at the mercy of insects. towns must have smelled like open sewers, with filth everywhere, but there were clean rooms around for genetic manipulation. And I thought the genetic research companies in this area only went back a few years, not a few millenia like T4C tells me.
Yah, G4G, you hip Christian, you... if you know something about some "Fire", please le us godless folk at least dive into an abandoned silo, or heavily-lined shelter, before you decide waiting for "Dad" to come home just ain't happening quick enough for ya, and decide "Dad" wants "#1 Son besides JC" to get three keys to turn, since He's too busy to show up for the Big Show Commencement... Yeah, I feel SOOO much safer with the idea of abandoned psychic sock-puppets like YOU in charge.
(Lamenting) Albert, baby... "benefit of the doubt" wasn't the way to go with these ninnies....
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